Joomla & Beyond 2011, Kerkrade in the Netherlands takes place between the 6th and the 8th of May. Simon Wells, K2 expert is attending and will be blogging about the event. During this time he will be interviewing Fotis from Joomlaworks about the K2 extension and its future.

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Cheers,

One of our sites got nominated for a JOSCAR..... Fingers crossed!

Thanks for the heads-up Ric. I've just been looking at last years videos on K2 actually - they're good.

And the nominee is???????????

Website? Www.hcourt.gov.au

Very clean and dignified, Peter. Well suited to the client.

Hope you do well with the nomination. Extremely fast loading site was the first thing I noticed about it.

Yeah nice site Peter - how did you get it to load so fast?? Your templater must be a real whizz.
I see code so clean it makes me lament all the template frameworks and extensions out there so careless of bloat. I wish we could go back to the bad old days when commercial templates were less ambitious, and tidier.

Thanks guys, well see over the weekend who wins what

I'll do a preso at a JUG one day.

Most of the optimisation code just comes from following YSlow to the Nth degree. The site itself is actually using T3 Framework stripped down from all the extra stuff. Same with all of the extensions in the site.

If a library is already loaded then don't load again, and if an plugin uses a different JS framework, don't use it as it adds extra bloat.

Also helps setting up the server yourself and configuring it the way you want.

Cache on the site is actually turned off as well so it can be faster.